Check holder and notching device



1. s. ARCU'S. v CHECK HOLDER AND NUTCHING DEVICEL APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1. 1917.

1,368,995. Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES s. axons, or cnrcaeo, ILtINoJs.

CHECK HOLDER, AND NOTCHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. P tent d Feb. 22, 1921.

Application filed December 1, 1917. Serial No. 204,862. I 1 i T 0 alZ whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I JAMES S; Anotis, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of -Illin ois have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check Holder and.

'manipnlated device for this purpose by which to hold a book of sales checks and to otherwise improve devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to improve the shearing action between the shearing edges of the. notching device.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel form of sales holding and notching device in which the device carries a receptacle to receive punchings or parts detached from the checks by the shearing or tearing-01f device.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the parts shown in the drawings and described in the specification, and is pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a holder and notching device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.

F iq. 3 is a plan view of the front end of the (cvice.

Fig. 1- is an end view thereof.

' Fig. 5 is a partial plan view'of the blank from which the device is made.

Fig. 6 is an edge elevation of a modified form of the device.

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 3.

The holder is made of a single elongated sheet metal plate and comprises a'body portion 10 of a width substantially equal to the width of the checks supported thereby. the checks being incicatcd in dotted lmcs m Fig. 1. At one cndof the plate it IS turned back upon itself to form clamping jaws 11, 12. The resilienc of the'metal from which the device is ma e is relied upon to clamp or hold a book of checks in the holder. the present instance the clamping engagement is that between the free end of the upper jaw and a corresponding portion. of the lower jaw; but this resilient engagement may be effected by other forms of'the clamping members. Preferably the free end of the upper jaw and the corresponding part of the plate at the lower 'jaw are turned inwardly toward each other to form teeth or spurs 14 to engage into the stubs of the book of sales checks and thereby effect a better hold of the device on the book of checks.

At the end of the plate remote from the clamping jaws said plate is cut away between its side edges to provide an elongated notching tongue 15. This tongue is left integral' at its rear end 16 .with the plate; At its forward end the tongue is shaped. to provide a notching point 17. The free end of the tongue is raised away or spaced from the front or upper face' of the plate 10 to afford a space between the tongue and plate to receive the edge of a check to be notched or punched. Said free end of the tongue is given atendency to thus space itself from the plate but, by reason of its resiliency is forcible toward the )late.

'The free or note ing end of the tongue may function to constitute either a shearing point or a tearing point. As'a shearing point the edges of the tongue, at the sides of the'extreme point. c'oiiaerate with corresponding edges 18, 18 in te V shaped notch of the plate from which a. portion of the tongue was out, so as to shear a triangular piece from the edge of a checlc' The opening in the plate from which the tongue is cut is preferably widened back of the shoal ing or tearing ed e so as to afford a clear -ance for the detached pieces of the checks to shaped notch therein so as to bring the cutting or shearing edges of the tongue and plate into pro er shearing relation. This may be efi'ecte by swaging the plate downwardly or rcarwardly in line with the point of the V shapednotch, as indicated at 20. The effect of this swaging operation is to slightly draw together the shearing edges of the plate so as to properly cooperate with the shearin edges of the tongue, and to also bring the s iearing edges 18 of the plate in planes oblique to the planes of the shearing edges of the tongue, as indicated in Fig. 7. By so doing the upper angles of said shearing edges 18 are presented to the shearing edges of the tongue in the most effective way for shearing action.

The tongue 15 is provided in rear of the notching point thereof with an inturned lug which constitutes a gage stop to limit the movement of the sales checks or slips into the space between the tearing tongue and plate and thereby limit the depth of the notch.

In order that the pieces detached from the checks may not fall indiscriminately about, a receptacle 23 maybe provided to receive them as they are cut or torn from said check. In the present instance such a receptacle is located on the rear side of the plate 10 opposite to the notching tongue.

t is preferably made integral with said plate. This may be conveniently effected by forming one end of the blank of which the holder is made with lateral wings 24, 24 to constitute, when folded, the side walls of the receptacle, and with-a longitudinalextension 25, that, when folded backwardly on the plate 10 along the fold lines indicated in Fig- 5, constitutes the bottom, front and rear walls 26, 27 and 28, respectively, of said receptacle. One 'ofi said walls, as the rear wall 28, may be provided with an opening 29 (Figs. 2 and 5) throu h which the pieces of the checks may e em tied from the receptacle.

n Fig. 6 is shown a modification wherev in the receptacle 23 is omitted. In said modification the plate 30, the jaws 31, 32, the spurs 34, the tongue 35 and the gage stop 36 are the same as the like parts before described. In the construction shown in Fig. 6, 1 however, the end'of the plate is elongated at 40beyond the notching tongue a distance to give suitable support against which the shearing edges of the notching tongue act. Said end of the plate may, however, be otherwise strengthened. The extended end of the plate is deformed at 41 in 'the manner before described to properly present the shearing edges of the ,plate to the shearing edges of the tongue.

The notching or punchin device may be employed for uses where the holding device is not required, and in this respect certain of the claim, ar eEot limited to a holdin and notchin -.devi e.

at I claim ag m invention is:

1. A combined sales check holder and price-marking device comprising a support aving at one end means to confine a book of checks, and having at its other end on the check-supporting side of the device a shearing marking device, embracing shearing edges on the device outwardly beyond the end of a book of checks supported thereon, and a resilient member on the checksupporting side-of tlre gdev-ice normally spaced .from, angl provided "with shearing edges movable toward and away from, said at the latter end of'the support to receive pieces cut from the checks by said shearing means.

3. A sales check holder and marking de vice comprising a support having at one end confining means for an end bound book of checks and at its other end marking means, embracing converging fixed and movable shearing edges onthe check suporting side of said support, the fixed edges Bounding an aperture in the support beyond the free ends of the checks, and-the movable shearing edge being formed on a member that extends toward but terminates short of the apertured end of the support and movable toward and from said fixed shearing edges, anda receptacle at the end of said support in position to receive pieces detached from the checks.

4. A sales check holder and marking device comprisin an elongated support haw ing at one end check pad holding means, and near its other end a perforation having shearing edges, and a resilient tongue extending toward, but terminating short of the latter end of said support, and formed at its free end with a point spaced from, and springable toward and from, the aperturcd end of the support and having shearing edges, said free end of the tongue and support being relatively deformed to present their shearing edges in an oblique shearii i'g plane.

' 5. A sales check holder and marking device comprising an elongated support, having at one end means to hold a sales check book and at its other end, outwardly beyond a pad of checks supported thereon a shearing notch, said support comprising a main" member and a springable member to sup ort said pad, with the springable member aving a shearing end formation outwardly beyond the end of the pad to cooperate with said shearing notch, whereby pressure to bring the shearing elements into shearin' relation can be-exerted through said pad 0 checks, and a receptacle at the free end of the support to receive pieces detached from said checks. 6. A sales check holder and markin device comprising an elon ted support or a pad of checks, one end 0 which is equi ped with holdin means for said pad, an the other end 0 which is adapted to extend beyond the free end ;of the pad and is equippzd with a shearin edge formation, there ing a lon 'tudinal y disposed sprin able shear end tongue extending towarfi, but terminating short of, and normally spaced from, but movable at its shear end toward, said shearing edge formation, and a receptacle at the free end of the support at said sheari edge formation to receive pieces sheare from a detached check.

' tongue to brin edges of the p ate in planes oblique to the planes of the faces of the shearing edges of I the tongue.

7. A sales check holder and notching device made of a sin 1e plate of resilient material, one end of w ich is shaped to provide resilient check holding jaws, and a notch-, ing tongue at the other end of said plate, th said plate at the latter end thereof being formedto provide wings which are folded backward] against the plate to constitute a receptac e to receive cuttings from the ch cks.

8. In a check holding and notching device a plate cut away within its edges to provide a notching tongue one end of the tongue being pointed and provided with shearing edges, the plate being provided with coiiperating shearing edges, said plate being deformed beyond the point of the 9. A device for the com rising a'support an a notching tongue, the atter pointedlat one extremity and provided at the sides of its point with shearin edges and the support-being provided- .wit

shearing edges whose faces bear oblique the margin of a check inter the faces of the shearing I member and arranged to receive'cuttings' (purposes set forth" rglation to the faces of the tongue shearing e ges.

10. A sales check holder and marking device comprisin a support having at oneend check book ho ding means, the other endof said support being provided with a notching tongue, the free end of which, near the latter end of the S IPP rt, is pointed and thereof toward each other and to present the faces of the support shearing edges obliquely to the faces of the tongue shearing ed L if A sales check holder and marking device comprising an elon ated su ort rovided at one end with afiioldin d p a tab of checks, and outwardly ieyond said holding device toward the other end of said sup ort with a longitudinally dis osed elongate tongue extending toward sai latter end, the support and tongue having oo- 0 rating relatively converging-1y angled s caring edges to notch a detached-check inserted therebetween, and a check limitin stop in rear of the shearing end of sai ton e.

1 A sales check holder and marking device comprising a support including two members of unequal length, both extending, in the same direction as a tab of checks evice for i adapted tobe supported thereby, one of j which said members is resilient and spaced from the checks.

, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses this -19th day of November, 1917. v I JAMES S. ARCUS.

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